Word: payments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, fans of Macondo will recognize the magic and hyperbole. For example, as the ultimate outrage the Americans confiscate the sea in partial payment of the national debt: they survey it, roll it up and ship it home to water the Arizona desert, leaving an endless lunar plain...
...notice HSA employees left on refrigerators in dormitory rooms said the units would be "removed very shortly" with "no advance notice" if payment was not received "immediately...
...stiff campaigner, Brock, 45, never managed to shake off his challenger, even though he spent $1 million-nearly twice as much as Sasser. The Democrat's big break came when the State Labor Council at a press conference compared Brock's extraordinarily low 1975 tax payment to that of a steel worker, a railroad engineer and an auto worker-who earn far less. Brock claimed that business expenses, charitable contributions and operating costs for a blind trust reduced his tax liability. Lapel buttons with the claim "I paid more taxes than Brock" began to sprout all over...
...used to be that we could set a goal for ourselves at the end of five or six years; with our savings we could make the down payment on a house, we could buy a new car in two years, we could be sure that we could put our kids through college. Now that has been wiped away by rampant inflation, which in this Administration has been at least three times what it was under President Johnson. There is no way to predict what is going to happen in the future...
...Social Security Act of 1935 and subsequent social legislation so greatly extended the jobless benefits that most out-of-work Americans now collect tax-free income for up to 65 weeks, averaging from $48.15 weekly in Mississippi to $95.56 in the District of Columbia. In fiscal 1976 the average payment was $71.85 weekly, and more than 10 million people collected jobless checks at one time or another. Add food stamps, welfare, union unemployment benefits (which in the auto industry bring jobless aid up to as much as 95% of take-home pay for some workers), and it is clear that...